M0001439: Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Richard Spruce (1817-1893), English botanist

Black and white reproduction of a photographic portrait of Richard Spruce (1817-1893), English botanist. The photograph possibly reproduced as part of the exhibition Malaria section of the international celebration and exhibition : three hundredth anniversary of the first recognized use of cinchona by Europeans, 1630-1930 hosted by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930. The facsimile is listed as exhibit no. 944 in the souvenir catalogue, and was lent by the British Museum (Natural History).

22 November 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digitised version of the exhibition catalogue which this item was exhibited in

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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